IJburg

IJburg is Ams­ter­dam’s largest hous­ing exten­sion and will even­tu­ally count 18.000 homes. It con­sists of 7 arti­fi­cial islands in lake IJmeer, which are being developed in phases.

The cre­ation and real­iz­a­tion of the first 4 islands star­ted in 1999 and was fin­ished in 2011; the second phase star­ted in 2013. A large vari­ety of hous­ing typo­lo­gies, includ­ing urb­an hous­ing blocks, row houses, indi­vidu­al fam­ily homes and even float­ing homes, char­ac­ter­izes the islands.

In some areas IJburg is exempt from the super­vi­sion of the muni­cip­al beauty com­mis­sion, grant­ing homeown­ers total free­dom in design­ing their dwell­ing.

On this tour we’ll explain why and how the islands were cre­ated, how their shape was determ­ined and what the spe­cif­ic chal­lenges were. We’ll also let you know about the urb­an concept, hous­ing typo­lo­gies and social back­ground.

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Pro­gramme: IJburg

Explan­a­tions about the cre­ation of the islands: ground own­er­ship, tech­nique, urb­an plan­ning, etc